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Intercountry Adoption in Prima Oct Edition

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Kewcumber · 02/09/2007 13:00

There is a piece on intercountry adoption in Prima in the newly out Oct issue. Covering three families - China, Russia and kazakhstan.

You may recognise one of them...

(Terrible photo though)

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Niecie · 02/09/2007 19:43

Wow - well done! I'll have to have a look.

I have always wondered how they find their stories. How did they find out about you kewcumber?

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Kewcumber · 02/09/2007 19:49

someone who was on my adoption prep coure is a journalist so I agreed to do a piece for him in the Western Mail (Wales)some time ago, as obviously I trusted him to portray adoption sensibly. Prima read my story in there and contacted me via him but I wouldn't do the story, until I realised a mumsnet friend was a freelance journalist so I said I would do it on condition that she wrote it as I would (again) trust her not to do the "rich white couples buying babies abroad" kind of crap you normally get.

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Meggymoose · 02/09/2007 20:37

Will look forward to the read!

KristinaM · 02/09/2007 20:52

so KC - did she do the "thin, gorgeous, internationally famous film star & mega rich single woman adopting" crap then??????

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Kewcumber · 02/09/2007 21:24

no it was pretty sensible and the photos would have exposed the "thin" lie - though they did lie by giving me a double chin which I don't possess.

Autographs £5
Signed photos £10

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Kewcumber · 02/09/2007 21:25

though annoyingly they have placed a photos of Angelina Jolie horribly close to mine...

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KristinaM · 02/09/2007 21:41

angelina will be annoyed too then ...

will rush out and buy one tomorrow

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Kewcumber · 02/09/2007 21:47

Special mumsnet rate £8 for an autographed copy...

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MingMingtheWonderPet · 02/09/2007 21:51

A sleb in our midst

KristinaM · 02/09/2007 21:53

are you going on big brother then??

MingMingtheWonderPet · 02/09/2007 21:56

Sleb Big Brother, or better still
I'm a sleb, Get me out of here!

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Kewcumber · 02/09/2007 21:58

if there was a "I'm a messy slut get me out of here" - I'd be there like a shot.

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Kewcumber · 02/09/2007 21:59

whispers

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MingMingtheWonderPet · 02/09/2007 22:01

From one messy slut to another, 'Your secret is safe with me'

BTW - Hope it goes well tomorrow. xx

Meggymoose · 03/09/2007 14:18

Great article kewcumber!

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Kewcumber · 03/09/2007 16:28

oh you've seen it then

I don't have a double chin really and Daniel is much cuter in real life...

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Niecie · 03/09/2007 17:52

Hope the review meeting went well Kewcumber. Do you have many more to go? Horribly long-winded process, it seems to me

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Kewcumber · 03/09/2007 18:56

every 6 weeks a normal meeting then every six months a review meeting until DS is readopted in the UK. Hopefully (depending on court schedules) by Easter maybe. so hopefully only one more review meeting.

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Meggymoose · 06/09/2007 16:17

Oh he looked very cute to me!

Meggymoose · 06/09/2007 16:18

Oh he looked very cute to me!

Meggymoose · 06/09/2007 16:18

Oh he looked very cute to me!

bran · 11/09/2007 22:10

I bought the magazine yesterday and thought it was a lovely photo. You both look so happy. Your voice came through in the article quite well I thought, although you are far more erudite and forthright on here so perhaps it was dumbed down a little for the target readership.

I was slightly at the woman who "rescued" her daughter from a Chinese orphanage. Did she ride in on a white horse and swoop her up I wonder? I think the quote may have been taken out of context a bit though as everything else about the couple seemed much more parent and child than rescuer and victim. The quote did trigger a memory from my school days of the school pastor who had two birth children and an adopted daughter from India.

He taught me for 2 years and mentioned the fact that his daughter was adopted several times, always with the subtle emphasis on the duty to be good to the less fortunate that had driven them to adopt when they could have had another birth child. He never mentioned feeling fortunate to have his daughter or even gave the impression that she was loved. I was unimpressed at the time as a teenager and am now as a mother.

Flibbertyjibbet · 11/09/2007 22:19

ooo I might go and flick through it at Sainsbury's.
How exciting. And how proud you must be!

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Kewcumber · 11/09/2007 22:59

bran - the iece was quite heavily cut so my brilliance didn;t get a chance to shine through .

On the "Rescued" in the title. I was equally surprised - couldn't imagine an adoptive parent saying that so I checking wth the journo - who checked her notes. Nope, mother never said anything even close! Magazine made it up - presumably because it sounded more compelling

Sadly you don't get any say over the headlines.

And I really really don't have a double chin

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Kewcumber · 11/09/2007 23:00

flibberty - yo'll be lucky - it's wrapped in plastic! Try the library if they get magazines.

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